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I got back to the Links condo from my excursion to Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday, July 29, 2009,  just in time to meet up with everyone and head out for our 5:30 pm dinner reservations at the Miyabi Japanese steakhouse.  While I had been gone, two brothers named Stephen and David, who were friends of Ashleigh’s from home, drove down to meet up with her. Somehow Ashleigh had managed to get everyone’s approval for them to stay there the night before. I still hadn’t even met them and they didn’t go to dinner with us. Read the rest of this entry »

After a morning of tinkering around on Sunday morning, September 13, 2009, I finally headed out of the house around 2:30pm. My final destination would be Mom’s house, where we were celebrating my nephew Adam’s third birthday. On the way, I stopped off at Toys ‘R’ Us to pick up his giant Hot Wheel Parking Garage and a Winnie the Pooh puzzle. I also made a brief stop at the Beavercreek Popcorn Festival. I didn’t have time to walk around much, but I met up with Heidi for about a half-hour to see her kids jump around inside one of those things kids jump around in. Read the rest of this entry »

After many years of preliminary dating, my step-brother Bryan finally took it upon himself to get hitched to the very nice and lovely Erine Jennings. The wedding took place at Carillon Park on Saturday, September 12, 2009. This was my second wedding of the year and it too was an outdoor affair. And it too was remarkably brief. There was a bit of music, the procession of the bridesmaids, groomsman, and the bride, a short reading, some incessant car alarm going off, the vows, and that was that. Twenty minutes later Bryan and Erine were hitched. Read the rest of this entry »

Unlike the Labor Days of 2007 and 2008, this one brought very little pain, aside from a slightly aching shoulder. Also unlike most prior family gatherings, this one didn’t actually take place on the holiday itself, but rather two days earlier, on Saturday, September 5, 2009. It was all part of a conspiracy…er, rather an extravaganza that also included a boy/girl baby shower for Chris and Sarah and the baby Olivia, who is due at the end of October. So at 3pm, a group of family members descended on Karen and Joe’s Coke Avenue home to commence with the merrymaking.   Read the rest of this entry »